Maritime history

Naval forces from fifteen colonial territories fought for the British Empire during the Second World War, providing an important new lens for understanding imperial power and colonial relations on the eve of decolonisation.

This new account explores the most notorious pirates in history and how their rise and fall can be traced back to a single pirate haven, Nassau.

This is the story of saltpeter, the vital but mysterious substance craved by governments from the Tudors to the Victorians as an 'inestimable treasure.

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A Sea of Misadventures examines more than one hundred documented shipwreck narratives from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century as a means to understanding gender, status, and religion in the history of early America.

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A sweeping account of how the sea routes of Asia have transformed a vast expanse of the globe over the past five hundred years, powerfully shaping the modern worldIn the centuries leading up to our own, the volume of traffic across Asian sea routes-an area stretching from East Africa and the Middle East to Japan-grew dramatically, eventually making them the busiest in the world.

Few images are as evocative as the silhouette of the Arab dhow as, under full sail, it tacks to windward on glittering waters of Red Sea before moving across the face of the rising or setting sun.

Tauchen Sie ein in die faszinierende Geschichte eines der berühmtesten Schiffe der Welt: die HMS Victory.

Germany's legendary Atlantic surface war was fought by Naval Group West.

A navy is a state's main instrument of maritime force.

A brilliantly detailed visual representation of the only US World War II destroyer to have retained its original configuration.

From the early nineteenth century onwards, literally millions of people left their homes to cross the seas.

From the Spanish text, published at Cuenca, 1627.

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Song and music have always played an important part in the cultural identity of the mariners and coastal peoples of the Red Sea.

The Kyrenia Ship, a Greek merchantman built around 315 BC, which sank off the north coast of Cyprus, was excavated between 1968 and 1972 under the direction of Michael L.

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China's rise on the world's oceans is attracting wide attention and may ultimately restructure the global balance of power during the course of the 21st century.

"e;A fascinating geopolitical chronicle .

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The experiences of men who fought at sea reveal the relationship between discipline, leadership, and the strength of the fleet.

This “impeccable, myth-busting study” of WWII maritime operations sheds new light on the conflict with sharp analysis and an international perspective (The Sunday Times, UK).

In Armageddon's Shadow chronicles events as they unfolded and highlights the very real threat of conflict between Britain and the United States.

This book explores the development of the global economy in the twentieth century through the lens of the European maritime infrastructure.

The Russian conquest of Siberia was an event of which the consequences have only slowly become apparent.

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Jack Tar''s Story examines the autobiographies and memoirs of antebellum American sailors to explore contested meanings of manhood and nationalism in the early republic.

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When the nuclear-powered submarine USS Triton was commissioned in November 1959, its commanding officer, Captain Edward L.

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Maritime piracy's improbable re-emergence following the end of the Cold War was surprising as the image of pirates evokes masted galleons and cutlasses.

The story of the sixteenth-century's epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and the Pacific Spices drove the early modern world economy, and for Europeans they represented riches on an unprecedented scale.

A superbly illustrated new account of how Germany's High Seas Fleet was built, operated and fought, as it challenged the world's most powerful navy in World War I.

A journey in the history of science across the shifting religious, epistemic, and technical practices on a remarkable sixteenth-century voyage.

The years leading to World War I were the 'Age of the Dreadnought'.

Oceans Odyssey 2 presents the results of the discovery and archaeological survey of ten deep-water wrecks by Odyssey Marine Exploration.

Translated and edited, with notes and an introduction, continuing the narrative from First Series 33.

There are a few books on all naval weapon systems for all nations in the world.

O'Hara presents the first general history of Britons' relationship with the surrounding oceans from 1600 to the present day.

Leviathane der Lüfte: Amerikas Luftschifffahrt bis 1945In "Leviathane der Lüfte: Amerikas Luftschifffahrt bis 1945" nimmt uns Thomas Gustav mit auf eine faszinierende Reise durch die Entwicklung der amerikanischen Luftschifffahrt.

A colorful history of visual signalling methods used at sea, from AD 900 to today.

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